After Raising $114,000 on Kickstarter, Dev Goes Silent

People need to realize that kickstarter is the venture capitalist for the masses. YOU. ARE. NOT.GUARENTEED. ANYTHING. Get over your self-importance. If you can't afford to speculate, don't. But if you do and you make a bad call, live with it and learn for next time.

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Fraud Alert =P

Is this supposed to be news?

Why do you think Kickstarter has been such a success up to this point? Because every project that had been previously backed has come to fruition? Of course not. It's all about potential: the potential of creating something that would not have existed otherwise, and with that comes the potential for failure.

Funding a project on Kickstarter is a lot like investing in the stock market. You could invest your money and hope to grow your initial investment, but you also run the risk of taking a loss on it, and there are extremes to both sides of this coin (ie, this particular example). Invest a little and if you lose your investment, it's not big deal. Invest a lot...well, now it's a bigger deal. Doing your homework and taking the time to research a particular stock will obviously help your chances of making a successful investment, but each and every stock will carry the inherent risk of producing a negative return.

Stuff like this is going to happen as long as Kickstarter exists, and that fact makes it neither good nor bad. As a general rule in life, there are always going to be people that attempt to scam, steal from, take advantage of, or abuse a good (or bad) concept or system. It simply comes with the territory.

Of course Kickstarter should look into this particular situation and others like it to see if anything can be done on its end to minimize these occurrences, but no matter what measures they decide to take, said risk will always remain. If you choose to invest and get burned, that's on you.

LOL! so many ppl making off with money from ppl wanting to contribute to kickstarters! WHEN WILL YOU PPL LEARN

Petty with a prior.

I don't know why I expected a lot more intelligence and accurate business insight from these comments but I was a fool to ever do so. This is FAR from a kickstarter creator problem. This happens every day even in actual market products.

Maybe he died or got cancer. I am sure if I found out I had cancer...terminal or not the last thing I would care about is responding to people.

It's really easy to have an idea, and even put together a decent build of a game. As any dev will tell you though, the last 10% takes as long as the first 90% - and this is where people who have already been paid will lose that initiative to push through and finish the project. Would you pay for a half built house?

this.... is .... old .... news ? gamespot greed ?

Aaaaaand it's gone.

Projects ending like this are a shame as kickstarter is a beacon for all people who are fed up of the AAA shite we get nowadays. We've had some great games through kickstarter and plenty more to come.... but only from big name people and their new studio's. News like this will completely cull any interest in the backing of new upstarts that could potentially deliver ground breaking games. Only Kickstarter can make this right by imposing new rules to make sure backers don't get burnt.

Maybe now people will stop throwing money at random crap on that site. I doubt it though...

what a shame.....i hope they spend that money on hospitals .....!!

A shame. We need a good dinosaur game.

there should be a policy in place at Kickstarter that offers better protection for investors. the way it seems, anyone can ask for money and just bail with it.

Sounds like he got in over his head and bailed out with the rest of the money.

<< LINK REMOVED >> so TRUE thats why gaming industry can surpass movie industry.... LIKE TAKING CANDIES FROM BABIES.

So MUCH POWER so LITTLE ACCOUNTABILITY!

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''PC gamers are the most gullible and stupid consumers I have ever seen in an industry''

Yet I will assume you own an iPhone right?

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kids and noobs ........

<< LINK REMOVED >> Funny. I'm a pc gamer, and I NEVER pay for unfinished products.

The only time I almost did was Road Redemption, but I made the smart choice not to when I saw the campaign was a fraud. They promised a Road Rash spiritual successor, but delivered Goat Simulator on bikes. Since then, crowd funding is dead to me. It's all a scam.

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10/10 would have jimmies rustled again

hey be careful what you say about PC gamers their are some people are the smartest PC gamers like me while some of them are just plain stupid I have encountered a lot of stupid ass PC gamers that does nothing but troll people and try to hack your account or hack the game to ruin your fun a word of advice next time think before you say something that has no sense in it k

It was a horrible looking game to begin with.